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poration to grant to any person the said degree of " Master of
Dental Surgery."

Sec. 9. The State Dental Society shall have the power to
determine what medical and dental colleges maintain a course of
education and training adequate in duration and standard to en-
title their diplomas to be approved and certified by the censors
as qualifying their holders to be licensed to practice dentistry in
this State, and so registered. Said society shall admit to its ex-
aminations, provided for in section eight of this Act, only the
following classes of persons, upon satisfactory proof of good
moral characters:

1. All duly licensed and registered dentists of this State.
2. All persons coming from other States or countries who
shall present to said society satisfactory proof of having been
lawfully engaged in the practice of dentistry without the State
for the term of six years.
All such persons as shall have studied dentistry for a term
3.
of four years in the office or offices of some reputable and duly
licensed and registered dentist or dentists of this State and shall
have in other respects conformed to the regulations governing
such examinations, which regulations not inconsistent with this
Act said society may make and must publish at least twice in
each calendar year in a leading dental journal. Every person
actually engaged at the time this Act takes effect in studying
dentistry under private preceptorship, as aforesaid, must, within
three months from the passage of this Act, file with the Secretary
of the State Dental Society a statement of his or her age, present
address, commencement of terms of study and the name and
address of his or her preceptors, who shall also certify that said
statement, so far as it relates to himself, is true. Any person be-
ginning such a course of study after the Act takes effect shall file
a similar certificate, and until it shall be made the term of four
years required by the statute shall not be deemed to be com-
menced. No such student shall be eligible for examination for
its diploma by said society who shall not have filed one of said
certificates, all of which shall be preserved, bound and indexed
by said Secretary. Any willfully false statement in any such
certificates shall preclude the person making it from the privi-
lege of examination. The censor for each judicial district
of said State society shall be empowered to examine any appli-
cant for the examination or certification of diploma granted under